Speaking of Interiors Ltd

Speaking of Interiors Ltd Interior design studio in Clapham. SPEAKING OF INTERIORS was conceived with our customers’ needs in mind - and no customer is the same.

That's why we offer tailored and personalised solutions to your project's interior design requirement on an ad-hoc basis. We serve private residential clients and developers alike. No project is too small or too big. We adapt to your needs and your budget without compromising on the quality and final delivery. Our team of expert Interior Designers closely collaborate with you to understand your ideal preferences and offer relevant bespoke interior design suggestions. We provide quality products from our list of selected vendors and trade partners, as well as expert tips throughout the project. We keep it simple, transparent and affordable.

Ready for popcorn 🍿The front room of a Balham house, finished. Small, south-facing, and now the room the whole family en...
14/09/2026

Ready for popcorn 🍿

The front room of a Balham house, finished. Small, south-facing, and now the room the whole family ends up in.

A few things worth pointing out as you swipe:

◾️ The sofa is bespoke — built to the shape of the bay, and deliberately deep. Comfort was the brief, so the fabric is Très Chic Beach by Perennials | Fabrics, Rugs & Wallcoverings, which is properly stain-resistant. Family life with a pale sofa, without the anxiety. ◾️ The blinds are bespoke too, in Santa Fe Pueblo Stripe by Osborne & Little — the warm stripe is what stops all that cream reading as flat. ◾️ The ottoman does three jobs: coffee table, footstool, extra seat. In a room this size, everything has to earn its place. ◾️ Pale oak joinery around the chimney breast keeps the TV from being the main event, and the light herringbone floor carries straight through from the hall. ◾️ Walls in Skimming Stone — warm enough to feel soft in the evening, quiet enough to let the green and the wood do the talking.

Warm, layered, and built for how this family actually spends a Sunday. That's the whole job.

The details: ◾️ Bespoke bay sofa in Très Chic Beach — Perennials | Fabrics, Rugs & Wallcoverings ◾️ Bespoke roman blinds in Santa Fe Pueblo Stripe — Osborne & Little ◾️ Green cushions — OKA ◾️ Round ottoman — Soho Home ◾️ Walls in Skimming Stone — Farrow & Ball ◾️ Aintree Oak herringbone flooring — The Natural Wood Floor Company ◾️ TV unit in light Casella Oak laminate — EGGER UK

📸 Fiona K | Brand & Product Photographer | London

Thinking about your own living room? Book a consultation through the link in my bio ✨

Swipe to see what a bay window is actually for ✨The before: a small front room with a dark floor, a grey-blue built-in, ...
14/09/2026

Swipe to see what a bay window is actually for ✨

The before: a small front room with a dark floor, a grey-blue built-in, two black recliners facing a TV, and a bay window treated as a dead corner. Comfortable enough — but cold, and much smaller-feeling than it needed to be.

What we changed and why:

◾️ A bespoke sofa wrapping the bay. Made to the exact curve of the window, deep enough to properly sink into. It turns the coldest part of the room into the best seat in the house and frees up the rest of the floor.

◾️ Warm floor instead of dark. Aintree Oak herringbone, running through from the hallway — light bounces instead of getting swallowed.

◾️ Warm walls. Skimming Stone, soft and forgiving, with the black picture-rail line gone.

◾️ Oak joinery around the chimney breast in place of the dark cabinetry — storage and a TV that sit quietly rather than dominating.

◾️ Layers instead of hard edges. Striped roman blinds, a green velvet ottoman, textured cushions, throws.
A small room doesn't need to be a plain one. It needs furniture made to fit it.

The details:

◾️ Bespoke bay sofa in Très Chic Beach (stain-resistant) — Perennials | Fabrics, Rugs & Wallcoverings
◾️ Bespoke roman blinds in Santa Fe Pueblo Stripe — Osborne & Little
◾️ Green cushions — OKA
◾️ Round ottoman — Soho Home
◾️ Walls in Skimming Stone — Farrow & Ball
◾️ Aintree Oak herringbone flooring — The Natural Wood Floor Company
◾️ TV unit in light Casella Oak laminate — EGGER UK

📸 Fiona K | Brand & Product Photographer | London

14/09/2026

See the design process.

Cold grey box ➝ the room you don't want to leave 🍿

This is the small front room of a Balham house — the TV room, the Sunday-night room.

Before: dark floor, grey walls, black leather, a bay window doing nothing at all.

The whole thing turned on one decision: a bespoke sofa built to wrap around the bay. Deep, soft, and shaped to the room rather than shoved against it — which is how a small room ends up seating the whole family instead of two people and a footstool.

Then we warmed everything up. Pale herringbone oak in place of the dark boards, Skimming Stone on the walls, oak joinery around the fireplace, and a green velvet ottoman you can put your feet on.

Same footprint. Completely different room.

Featuring;

◾️ Sofa fabric is tres chic beach by , with stain resistance properties
◾️ Bespoke roman blinds in santa Fe pueblo stripe by osborneandlittle
◾️ Decorative green cushions by
◾️ Round Ottoman by
◾️ Wall colour is Skimming stone by
◾️ Aintree Oak herringbone flooring —
◾️ TV unit in light casella Oak laminate

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An entrance that actually holds a family's stuff — and still looks like this ✨Swipe through the details. This is one wal...
01/09/2026

An entrance that actually holds a family's stuff — and still looks like this ✨

Swipe through the details. This is one wall of bespoke oak joinery in a Balham house, designed around what this family genuinely needed somewhere to put:

◾️ Full-height cupboards either side — coats, shoes, the sports kit, the things you don't want to look at
◾️ A slim console with two drawers for keys, post and the daily debris
◾️ Two woven stools tucked underneath, so there's somewhere to sit and pull your boots off
◾️ Open niches for the bits you do want to look at — a frame, a candle, a plant
◾️ A mirror behind the console, bouncing daylight down a narrow hall (and one last check before you leave)
◾️ Brass sconces and a fluted glass ceiling light for warmth after dark
◾️ Herringbone oak underfoot, carried through the black metal glazed door into the kitchen

The whole point of joinery is that it earns its space. A shallow console would have looked lovely and solved nothing. This one gives to the family a proper landing spot at the door — which is the difference between a tidy hallway and a hallway you have to tidy.

Part of a full four-floor renovation between Balham and Wandsworth Common.

Thinking about your own entrance? Book a consultation through the link in my bio.

Featuring;

Aintree Oak herringbone flooring — The Natural Wood Floor Company
Storage in light casella Oak laminate
Aged brass handles — Hendel & Hendel
Ceiling and wall lights by Soho Home
Stools by Cult Furniture

📸 Fiona K | Brand & Product Photographer | London

Before and after — the hallway.Swipe for the before. Grey tile, grey walls, a pew by the door, and shoes on the floor be...
01/09/2026

Before and after — the hallway.

Swipe for the before. Grey tile, grey walls, a pew by the door, and shoes on the floor because there was nowhere else for them to go. Nothing wrong with it exactly. It just wasn't doing anything.

Here's what changed:

◾️ The whole wall became bespoke oak joinery — full-height storage for coats, shoes and the everyday pile-up
◾️ A slim console with drawers for keys and post, with two woven stools tucked underneath
◾️ A mirror above it, to throw daylight back down a narrow space
◾️ Herringbone oak flooring in place of dark tile, carried through to the kitchen so the ground floor reads as one home
◾️ A black metal glazed door to the kitchen — keeps the light, keeps the noise where it belongs

The lesson I'd take from this one: your hallway is the first and last thing you see every day. It deserves more than a hook on the wall.

Part of a full four-floor renovation between Balham and Wandsworth Common.

Save this for your own hallway 📌

Featuring;

Aintree Oak herringbone flooring — The Natural Wood Floor Company
Storage in light casella Oak laminate
Aged brass handles — Hendel & Hendel
Ceiling and wall lights by Soho Home
Stools by Cult Furniture

📸 Fiona K | Brand & Product Photographer | London

01/09/2026

What I see. What you get.

Hallways usually are the room everyone forgets to design. They get the leftover space, the leftover budget and a coat rack that gave up years ago. This one was a long grey corridor with nowhere for a family to put anything - so we gave the whole wall over to bespoke joinery. Full-height storage for coats, shoes and all the rest of it, a slim console with drawers, two woven stools tucked underneath for putting shoes on, and a mirror to pull light down the hall. Herringbone oak underfoot, running straight through to the kitchen.

The entrance to a full four-floor renovation between Balham and Wandsworth Common.

Would you give up a bit of hallway width for proper storage? I would, every single time.

Featuring;
Aintree Oak herringbone flooring by
Storage in light casella Oak by laminate
Aged brass handles by
Ceiling and wall lights by
Stools by

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Hi, I'm Johanna. It's been a while since I properly introduced myself, so here goes.I'm the founder of Speaking of Inter...
21/08/2026

Hi, I'm Johanna. It's been a while since I properly introduced myself, so here goes.

I'm the founder of Speaking of Interiors, a residential interior design studio based in Clapham, London. I've been designing homes across London since 2020 — and it's just me. The person you meet at the first consultation is the same person choosing your worktop, chasing your sofa delivery and styling the shelves at the end.

WHAT I DO
- Full home renovations and refurbishments
- Room-by-room transformations — kitchens, living rooms, bedrooms
- Space planning, joinery, lighting, FF&E and styling
- Online design, if you're further afield or happy to run the works yourself

WHERE I WORK
Clapham, Balham, Wandsworth, Battersea — and across Central, South West and South East London.

WHAT IT'S LIKE TO WORK WITH ME
- Function comes first. A beautiful room that doesn't work for how you actually live is bad design.
- No house style. Your home should look like you, not like me. - Straight talk about money. I buy furniture and finishes at trade, which usually saves clients 10-20% on their spend — often covering a good part of my fee.
- Flexible collaborative approach. We shape the scope around your priorities as we go.

I design real homes for real people.

If you've got a project brewing, book a consultation through the link in my bio. I'd love to hear what you're planning ✨



📸 Fiona K | Brand & Product Photographer | London

Before, mid-build, after. Every renovation is a journey — and the middle part is rarely pretty. Swipe to see this one th...
21/08/2026

Before, mid-build, after. Every renovation is a journey — and the middle part is rarely pretty. Swipe to see this one through all three stages.

A house between Balham and Wandsworth Common. They say the kitchen is the heart of the home, and this one earns it: spacious, bright, modern with real character. A wonderful collaboration with eclecticinteriors.

The details:
◾️ Corchia Uffizi worktop + splashback — ARTEMISTONE®
◾️ Aintree Oak herringbone flooring — The Natural Wood Floor Company
◾️ Aged brass handles — Hendel & Hendel
◾️ Murano glass pendants — Heathfield & Co
◾️ Counter stools — Danetti
◾️ Paint by Farrow & Ball — cabinetry in Dimity, walls in Skimming Stone

Which stage surprises you most?



📸 Fiona K | Brand & Product Photographer | London

20/08/2026

Working with an interior designer takes a little trust. At the start, all you're holding is a handful of samples — it takes some imagination to see the finished room.

Here's what these ones became: modern, textured cabinetry with a statement Corchia Uffizi worktop and splashback by that anchors the eye the moment you walk in. This Balham kitchen is one of our favourite projects to date, executed beautifully by .

The details:

◾️ Corchia Uffizi worktop + splashback —
◾️ Aintree Oak herringbone flooring —
◾️ Aged brass handles —
◾️ Murano glass pendants —
◾️ Counter stools —
◾️ Paint by — cabinetry in Dimity, walls in Skimming Stone

Save this one for your own kitchen plans ✨



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Monday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Tuesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Thursday 9:30am - 5:30pm
Friday 9:30am - 5:30pm

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